Tribes in Ancient India c8.10

c8.10

The *Bṛhadāraṇyaka* (VI, 1, 1) and *Chāndogya Upaniṣad* (V, 3, 1) tell how Śvetaketu Āruṇeya went to the assembly (*pariṣad*) of the Pañcālas where the Kṣatriya, Pravāhaṇa Jaivali, put to him several questions which neither Śvetaketu nor his father was able to answer. Śvetaketu’s father, though a Brāhmaṇa, was glad to learn the answers to these questions from Pravāhaṇa Jaivali, although the latter was a Rājanya or Kṣatriya.⁵